Word: hotter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action. Congressmen spend their legislating hours in the air-conditioned Chambers of the House and Senate.† If they were to leave Washington most of them would have to do without any air-conditioning at all, would find temperatures at home as hot as in Washington, if not hotter. Undoubtedly the lobby putting the most pressure on Congress to adjourn...
Such harmonious grumbling was not to last. Smart, left-wing Columbia professors were on hand to steer the convention head-on into a hotter issue: Academic Freedom. Keynoter Newlon and his colleagues made delegates feel that the abstract cause of Academic Freedom was their own concrete cause against arbitrary superintendents, corrupt school boards. Professor John Kelley Norton tickled fancies with a proposal that the nation's teachers unite with parents and workingmen of goodwill to hold the national balance of political power. In that Coughlinesque idea the scary Denver Post professed to see the birth of "the Pedagogic Party...
...bits of good news Generalissimo Chiang smacked his thin lips, enjoying tea with "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang. This gilded Chinese youth fell heir to the fabulous loot of his mighty War Lord sire, the late, great Chang Tso-lin, drinker of hot tigers' blood and toyer with hotter women. Last week the Young Marshal was still trying to make good, fooling around the Communist war zone in his shiny new Boeing plane...
Less disadvantageous than it used to be in the days of much outdoor photography is the fact that southern Florida, besides being hotter than southern California in summer, is flat as a pancake, lacks all scenery except swamps, beaches, palms, truck gardens and fruit groves. Said optimistic Joe Schenck last week: "Transportation is the major asset and you have that. . . . If we have to have mountains, it isn't very far to the Carolinas...
...Perez won the cigarmaking contest, she rolling her two cigars in 4 min. 35 4/5 sec., he in 2/5 sec. less. The decks were cleared for Dancer Nicki Leoni, who appeared in a disappointingly simple evening gown of native design. As the music grew faster and the dance grew hotter, she stripped off her dress bit by bit, finally emerged in a skirt and brassière of tobacco leaves-about enough to make six cigars (see cut). Later Governor Sholtz of Florida, Mayor Chancey of Tampa and many another bigwig attended a banquet in honor of a few feeble...